G Neri Books in Order

Marcus is one punch away from losing school and home when a chess mentor named CM offers him another way to fight. This verse novel turns anger, grief, and bullying into a tense story about learning self-control.

Grieving the death of a surfer friend and desperate for money, Logan agrees to a summer job that turns into drug smuggling. The road trip with Z-boy is fast, messy, and full of choices that can wreck both boys.

This graphic novel revisits the last days of Robert 'Yummy' Sandifer, an eleven-year-old gang member hunted after a deadly shooting in Chicago. Told through a classmate's eyes, it asks how a child ends up trapped inside violence.

After his mother leaves him with the father he barely knows, Cole lands in Philadelphia and discovers a community of Black urban riders. Caring for horses gives him purpose, but the stables he comes to love are under threat.

Written in free verse, this picture book traces Johnny Cash from his poor Arkansas childhood to the moment his voice finally breaks through. It is a stirring introduction to the grit, grief, and music that shaped him.

Erica, a white sophomore at a mostly Black school in St. Louis, hides behind her video camera until a new friend draws her into the TKO Club. Soon she is filming violent knockout attacks and questioning where belonging turns into complicity.

Before they were Harper Lee and Truman Capote, Nelle and Tru were two misfit kids in Depression-era Alabama. Their detective game around a drugstore theft becomes a funny, tender mystery with real danger underneath.

This sequel follows Tru and Nelle across several Christmas seasons as family trouble, distance, and growing up pull at their friendship. It keeps the warmth and humor of the first book, but adds more loss, history, and hard choices.

In this graphic true story, horse trainer Gail Ruffu risks everything to save the racehorse Urgent Envoy from being pushed too far. What starts as a rescue becomes a legal fight about loyalty, justice, and the price of doing the right thing.

This picture book follows Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel from boyhood in Queens to early fame, setbacks, and lasting success. It is a warm story about friendship, harmony, and how long the road to greatness can be.

This picture book introduces Christo and Jeanne-Claude, the artists who wrapped buildings, coastlines, and public spaces to make people see them differently. It is part love story, part art history, and full of big questions about what art can do.

Neri turns his grant-funded trip to Antarctica into a lively travel memoir filled with penguins, scientists, strange landscapes, and kidlike wonder. It is an approachable way into both polar adventure and the science happening on the ice.

Darius thinks a bag of cash from a crashed armored truck could save his family from foreclosure. Instead, he, his little sister, and his best friend end up crossing dangerous Chicago streets with gangs, grief, and bad luck closing in.

Looking back on a 1976 family road trip, Neri mixes landmarks, history, funny travel moments, and harder truths about America. The result is a kid's-eye memoir that feels both celebratory and honest.